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# Security Engineer at Starburst

- **Company:** Starburst
- **Location:** India
- **Posted:** 2026-08-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/starburst/jobs/5399498008

## Job description

## About Starburst

Starburst delivers enterprise intelligence at scale by giving organizations secure, governed access to all their data, wherever it lives. Built for distributed data environments, Starburst helps enterprises power AI and analytics without the cost and complexity of traditional data consolidation. With open standards including Trino and Apache Iceberg, Starburst enables trusted access to complete enterprise context while helping organizations avoid vendor lock-in. Leading global enterprises trust Starburst to fuel AI, analytics, and enterprise intelligence. Learn more at [starburst.ai](http://starburst.ai).

## About the role

As a Security Engineer II, you'll help advance Starburst's Application Security program by building the automation and tooling that allows a small team to secure a large engineering organization. You'll take security problems and turn them into reliable, automated systems, using AI where it adds leverage. This is a hands-on engineering role: you'll write production code, integrate security checks into CI/CD pipelines, and build automation and guardrails the program depends on.

You don't need deep specialist expertise in vulnerability management or offensive security. What matters is a solid information security foundation, strong engineering skills, and the judgment to make sound security tradeoffs. This role offers room to grow your security depth and take on broader product security responsibilities over time.

You'll work closely with Engineering and Product.

As a Security Engineer at Starburst you will:

- Build automation and tooling for the Application Security program, turning manual, repetitive, or hard-to-scale security work into reliable automated systems, increasingly powered by AI.
- Integrate security into the development lifecycle, enabling automated security checks within CI/CD pipelines and building reusable guardrails and secure-by-default components.
- Support and extend our security stack (SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets scanning), connecting tools so findings reach the right engineering team quickly and helping developers interpret and remediate them.
- Apply AI to scale security work, prototyping and productionizing AI-assisted workflows for triage, analysis, and remediation.
- Support vulnerability management operations, helping detect, triage, and route newly disclosed vulnerabilities, and making that process faster and more consistent.
- Make sound security tradeoffs and help improve secure coding standards, documentation, and remediation playbooks.

Some of the things we look for:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2–4 years of experience in security engineering, software engineering, or a related technical role.
- A solid foundation in information security fundamentals, with the judgment to make sound security tradeoffs.
- Strong understanding of application vulnerabilities and mitigation strategies (OWASP Top 10, CWE).
- Demonstrated experience building automation and tooling, especially using AI, to solve real problems.
- Experience with one or more languages such as Python, Go, Java, or JavaScript/TypeScript (Java and Python preferred).
- Experience with CI/CD tooling, Git-based workflows, and modern development practices.
- Familiarity with cloud security concepts and hands-on experience with at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Experience in enterprise B2B software, self-managed and/or SaaS, is a plus.

Build your career at Starburst

All-Stars have the opportunity and freedom to realize their true potential. By building alongside top talent, we’re empowered to take ownership of our careers and drive meaningful change. Anchored in industry-proven technology and unprecedented success, All-Stars are taking on the challenge everyday to disrupt our industry –  and the future.

Our global workforce is supported by a competitive Total Rewards program that reflects our commitment to a rewarding and supportive work environment. This includes a variety of benefits like competitive pay, attractive stock grants, flexible paid time off, and more.

We are committed to fostering an intentional, inclusive, and diverse culture that drives deep engagement, authentic belonging, and an exceptional All-Star experience. We believe that diversity of thought, perspective, background and experience will enable us to own what we do, drive our success and empower our All-Stars to show up authentically.

Starburst provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

## About Starburst

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Starburst provides an enterprise data platform built on Trino that enables federated analytics, data lakehouse capabilities, and governed access to data across clouds, warehouses, and SaaS sources without requiring data movement.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed, specific funding round not disclosed in available sources)
- **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, USA (with major offices in San Francisco, London, Warsaw, and Tel Aviv)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Justin Borgman, Martin Traverso, Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski (co-creators of the Trino open-source query engine)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise data analytics, data infrastructure, and lakehouse platforms
- **Target customers**: B2B, Fortune 500 enterprises, mid-market organizations, and startups across 60+ countries
- **Mission**: To free our customers from the tyranny of data lock-in by providing a flexible, open data stack that unifies distributed data without costly migrations.

## Products & Services
- **[Starburst Galaxy](https://www.starburst.io/)**: Fully managed, usage-based SaaS version of the Starburst platform. Enables federated query across 50+ connectors (Amazon S3, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, PostgreSQL, etc.), built-in governance, workload isolation, and AI/BI integration (including natural language queries via AIDA and MCP endpoints).
- **[Starburst Enterprise](https://www.starburst.io/)**: Self-hosted, enterprise-grade deployment on-premises or in hybrid/multi-cloud environments. Includes all Galaxy features plus advanced security controls and support for Apache Iceberg optimization (“Icehouse”).
- **Data Products**: Governed, reusable data assets that package data with business context, ownership, access policies, and quality expectations for both human analysts and AI agents.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available in provided sources
- **Key Metric**: Trusted by more than 250 leading organizations across 60+ countries ([starburst.io](https://www.starburst.io/about/))
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed in available search results; the company has previously announced funding from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, and others (not cited in provided sources)
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring for 23 open roles across engineering, product, sales, and support; offices in five major tech hubs; expanding AI capabilities with AIDA (AI-driven data assistant) and MCP query endpoints for agentic workflows; incremental adoption of open formats (Iceberg) without replatforming

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open-source foundation**: Built on Trino (formerly PrestoDB), the leading open-source SQL query engine, avoiding vendor lock-in.
- **Federated architecture**: Query data in place across multiple systems without moving or copying data, reducing costs and complexity.
- **Iceberg optimization**: Native support for Apache Iceberg with workload isolation and performance tuning (“Icehouse”), enabling modern lakehouse patterns.
- **Unified governance**: Enforce security, access controls, and business context (definitions, policies) across all data and queries, including those made by AI agents.
- **Scalable performance**: 7.3x cost savings, 3.2x faster analytics, and 50+ connectors cited on the homepage ([starburst.io](https://www.starburst.io/))

## Strategic Focus
- **AI integration**: Enabling governed, trusted data access for AI agents (e.g., via MCP query endpoints); developing natural-language query capabilities (AIDA).
- **Open lakehouse adoption**: Helping enterprises migrate incrementally to open table formats (Iceberg) without full replatforming.
- **Context layer**: Organizing business definitions, metadata, and data products as code so every team and AI system works from the same trusted context.
- **Global expansion**: Building out teams in India (new Engineering Site Lead role) and strengthening presence in EMEA and LATAM.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: “Working remotely, but more connected than ever” with flexible remote work opportunities; offices in Boston, San Francisco, London, Warsaw, and Tel Aviv for those who prefer in-person collaboration ([starburst.io/careers/](https://www.starburst.io/careers/)).
- **Comprehensive benefits**: Equity ownership, competitive compensation, comprehensive health insurance, flexible PTO, paid parental leave, life insurance, disability coverage, employee assistance programs ([starburst.io/careers/](https://www.starburst.io/careers/)).
- **Diverse and inclusive**: Commitment to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace; annually published diversity data (e.g., female representation) ([starburst.io/careers/](https://www.starburst.io/careers/)).
- **Engineering culture**: Opportunity to work on Trino, a widely adopted open-source project; roles span Trino engine development, benchmark infrastructure, access control, connectors, and AI/ML products; strong emphasis on innovation and impact ([greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/starburst)).
- **Growth opportunity**: 23 active openings across multiple departments, including senior engineering management in India and Poland, product management, enterprise sales, and professional services.

## Sources
1. [starburst.io](https://www.starburst.io/)
2. [starburst.io/about/](https://www.starburst.io/about/)
3. [starburst.io/careers/](https://www.starburst.io/careers/)
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/starburst](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/starburst)
5. [starburst.io/careers/open-roles/](https://www.starburst.io/careers/open-roles/)

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